Who needs FAAB or trades?

It's amazing that the Homers have been able to lead the entire way this year (so far), and have had no major contributions from any FAAB or trade pickup, except in the Saves category (where they only have 4 points currently). Here's how their 2007 major contributors were acquired (I included the auction rounds just out of curiosity):

2004 Auction/Reserve Draft/FAAB/Waivers/Trades
none

2005 Auction/Reserve Draft/FAAB/Waivers/Trades
Juan Pierre ($34 in auction, used in Wickman trade)
Fred Lewis ($2 in reserve draft, used in Wickman trade)

2006 Auction
Prince Fielder - $22 (brought up in the 3rd round of bidding)
Bronson Arroyo - $11 (3rd)
Chris Young - $21 (4th)
Garrett Atkins - $20 (4th)
Nomar Garciaparra - $15 (4th)
Ian Snell - $4 (8th)
Corey Hart - $15 (8th)
Miguel Olivo - $2 (10th)
Dan Uggla - $5 (10th)
Shane Victorino - $3 (14th)

2006 Reserve Draft
Russell Martin
Jonathan Broxton (eventually used in Valverde/Dempster trade)

2006 FAAB/Waivers
none

2006 Trades
Bob Wickman

2007 Auction
Ben Sheets - $33 (1st)
Jason Bay - $28 (2nd)
Rafael Soriano - $12 (5th)
Ryan Theriot - $6 (9th)
Matt Diaz - $6 (12th)

2007 Reserve Draft
none

2007 FAAB/Waivers
Milton Bradley (contribution TBD)

2007 Trades
Jose Valverde (contribution TBD)
Ryan Dempster (contribution TBD)


This lays to waste the "studs and duds" rebuilding method. That was one heckuva draft last year (2006).